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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.

Seneca the Younger

All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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Besetting Down Hands Let Pit
That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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Birthday End Eternity Fear
A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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Approach Lying Thousand
Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
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Ambition Know Mind
He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.
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Disappointment Office Years
There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Anything Delight Help Other
To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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Ignorant Life Soul
[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember …] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.
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Failure Mistake Remember Ruin Way
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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Goal Men Wind
If you wish to be loved, love.
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Country Emotion Life Love People Person
It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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Equality Vice Virtue
I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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Bestnow Kindness Recieve
While crime is punished it yet increases.
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Crime Increase Prison
The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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Awareness Feels Safety Self
It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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Excellence Philosophical Quality
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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Life Men Philosophical

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